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" The Ideas of Goblins and Sprights have really no more to do with Darkness than Light : Yet let but a foolish Maid inculcate these often on the Mind of a Child, and raise them there together, possibly he shall never be able to separate them again so long... "
A Collection of the Occasional Papers for the Year ... - Page 21
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...in the nature of things. Among several examples of this kind, he produces the following instance. ' The ideas of goblins and sprights have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and...
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Philosophical beauties selected from the works of John Locke

John Locke - 1802 - 308 pages
...notions themselves, that perhaps there is not any one thing that deserves more to te looked after. The ideas of goblins and sprights have really no more to do with darkness than light; yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and raise...
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The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 7

British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...in the nature of things. Among several examples of this kind, he produces the following instance. ' The ideas of goblins and sprights have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these ofien on the mind of a child, and...
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Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 6

Medicine - 1810 - 546 pages
...which this case is related, ought never to have had any weight. It has been said by Mr Locke, that ideas of goblins and sprights have really no more to do with darkness than light. This is certainly very just, as we have clearly seen by the foregoing relations,...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3

Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...in the nature of things. Among several examples of this kind, he produces the following instance. ' The ideas of goblins and sprights have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...in the nature of things. Among several examples of this kind, he produces the following instance. ' The ideas of goblins and sprights have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1813 - 518 pages
...themselves, that perhaps there is not any one thing that deserves more to be looked after. § 10. Instances. THE idea•s of goblins and sprights, have really no more to do with darkness, than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and...
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and 2

James Mill - Psychology - 1822 - 336 pages
...notions themselves ; that perhaps there is not any one thing that deserves more to be looked after. " The ideas of goblins and sprights have really no more to do with darkness than light. Yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often in the mind of a child, and raise...
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Handbuch der englischen sprache und literature, Volume 1

H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...notions themselves, that perhaps there is not any one thing that «laserves more to be looked after. The ideas of goblins and sprights have really no more to do with darkness, than light; yet let but a fuolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and...
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The Works of John Locke, Volume 2

John Locke - 1823 - 460 pages
...themselves, that perhaps there is not any one thing that deserves more to be looked after. ( , § 10. The ideas of goblins and sprights have really no more to do with darkness than light ; yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and...
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